Craig Pond is a freshwater frozen pond 0.85 nautical miles (1.6 km) east of Dauphin Pond in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Scott D. Craig of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, East Orland, ME, a member of a United States Antarctic Program party that field sampled Labyrinth ponds in 2003–04.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Craig Pond". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-12-02.

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77°34′S 160°46′E / 77.567°S 160.767°E / -77.567; 160.767


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